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| | HistoryLink Essay: Seattle Sounders |
 | | Seattle’s entry was owned by a group of prominent local businessmen and women who promptly named John Best coach of the team, and held a “name the team” contest. |
 | | In 1976 the Sounders moved to the "state-of-the-art" Kingdome (where there was no chance of rain, but they did have to deal with the evils of Astroturf), facing the New York Cosmos in the first event ever in the new stadium, before a sold-out crowd of 58,128. |
 | | The Tacoma Stars, FC Seattle Storm (who were the original owners of the name, incidentally, not the Women's National Basketball Association with its Seattle team called the Seattle Storm), and Seattle Seadogs were all good teams (and all had former Sounders in their lineups), but none of them lasted even 10 years. |
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